See asafoetida on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section II:",
"text": "Nigh Whormoot are Duzgun, Laztan-De, and other Townes, where is got the best Assa-Fætida through all the Orient: the tree is like our brier in height, the leaves resemble Fig leaves, the root the Radish: the vertue had need be much, it stincks so odiously.",
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"ref": "1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:",
"text": "CHEWING-BALLS, a kind of balls made of aſafœtida, liver of antimony, bay-wood, juniper-wood, and pellitory of Spain; which being dried in the ſun, and wrapped in a linen-cloth, are tied to the bit of the bridle for the horſe to chew: they create an appetite; and it is ſaid, that balls of Venice treacle may be uſed in the ſame manner with good ſucceſs.",
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"ref": "1842, Robley Dunglison, “Of the Neuroses”, in The Practice of Medicine; or, A Treatise on Special Pathology and Therapeutics. […], volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, book VI (Diseases of the Nervous System), page 280:",
"text": "The smell, too, is often perverted—Parosmia. The author was formerly acquainted with a lady, who scented her snuff with the tincture of assafœtida.",
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"ref": "1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 54:",
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"ref": "1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 155:",
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"ref": "1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford:",
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"english": "shing kun",
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"word": "ཤིང་ཀུན"
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"2": "ML.",
"3": "asafoetida"
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"ref": "1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section II:",
"text": "Nigh Whormoot are Duzgun, Laztan-De, and other Townes, where is got the best Assa-Fætida through all the Orient: the tree is like our brier in height, the leaves resemble Fig leaves, the root the Radish: the vertue had need be much, it stincks so odiously.",
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"ref": "1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:",
"text": "CHEWING-BALLS, a kind of balls made of aſafœtida, liver of antimony, bay-wood, juniper-wood, and pellitory of Spain; which being dried in the ſun, and wrapped in a linen-cloth, are tied to the bit of the bridle for the horſe to chew: they create an appetite; and it is ſaid, that balls of Venice treacle may be uſed in the ſame manner with good ſucceſs.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1842, Robley Dunglison, “Of the Neuroses”, in The Practice of Medicine; or, A Treatise on Special Pathology and Therapeutics. […], volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, book VI (Diseases of the Nervous System), page 280:",
"text": "The smell, too, is often perverted—Parosmia. The author was formerly acquainted with a lady, who scented her snuff with the tincture of assafœtida.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 54:",
"text": "half-a-dozen huge bread pills, dipped in a solution of aloes or cinnamon water, flavoured with assafœtida, which in the case of the dyspeptic rich often suffice [...].",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 155:",
"text": "For black magic, assafœtida, garlic, dragon's blood, sulphur, and such-like vile-smelling concoctions were used.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford:",
"text": "The letter she sent me stank of assafoetida or devil’s dung. I was charmed.",
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"A resinous gum from the stem and roots of Ferula species such as Ferula foetida and Ferula assa-foetida, having a strong, unpleasant smell, with culinary and medical uses."
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"word": "asant"
},
{
"word": "hing"
},
{
"word": "devil's dung"
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{
"word": "stinking gum"
}
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"usually"
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{
"ipa": "/ˌæsəˈfɛtɪdə/"
}
],
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{
"word": "asafetida"
},
{
"word": "asfetida"
},
{
"word": "assafetida"
},
{
"tags": [
"dated"
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"word": "assa-fetida"
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{
"word": "assafoetida"
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{
"word": "assa-fœtida"
}
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥiltīt",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "حِلْتِيت"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "kʻaġban",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "քաղբան"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "angužat",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "անգուժատ"
},
{
"code": "axm",
"lang": "Middle Armenian",
"roman": "angužat",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "անգուժատ"
},
{
"code": "axm",
"lang": "Middle Armenian",
"roman": "maġtʻ",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "մաղթ"
},
{
"code": "ban",
"lang": "Balinese",
"roman": "hinggu",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "ᬳᬶᬂᬕᬸ"
},
{
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "hrin:hkui",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "ရှိန်းခို"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "duivelsdrek"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "hajupihka"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "pirunpihka"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ase fétide"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Asant"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Teufelsdreck"
},
{
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "hiṅg",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "હિંગ"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "hīṅg",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "हींग"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "hī̃g",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "हीँग"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "hiṅg",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "हिंग"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "bűzös husáng"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "bűzös aszat"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "djöflatað"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "assafetida"
},
{
"code": "kac",
"lang": "Jingpho",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "hkying hku"
},
{
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "iṅgu",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "ಇಂಗು"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "keureksasyr",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "кеурексасыр"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "ma hā hing",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "ມະຫາຫິງ"
},
{
"code": "nds-nl",
"lang": "Dutch Low Saxon",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "düvelsdreck"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German",
"masculine"
],
"word": "düwelsdreck"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "kāyaṁ",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "കായം"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "hiṅga",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "हिंग"
},
{
"code": "mnw",
"lang": "Mon",
"roman": "ŋùˀ",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "ၚု"
},
{
"code": "ne",
"lang": "Nepali",
"roman": "hiṅ",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "हिङ"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dyvelsdrek"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "hiltit",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "حلتیت"
},
{
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "anja",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "انجه"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "angodân",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "انگدان"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "angožad",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "انگژد"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "râfe",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "رافه"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "hing",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"Dari"
],
"word": "هنگ"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "asafetyda"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "czarcie łajno"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "smrodzieniec"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "assafétida"
},
{
"code": "rgn",
"lang": "Romagnol",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "asafëtida"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "hiṅgu",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "हिङ्गु"
},
{
"code": "shn",
"lang": "Shan",
"roman": "síng khò",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "သိင်းၶူဝ်ႇ"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "asafétida"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "dyvelsträck"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "inggo"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "asapetida"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "rov",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "ров"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "peruṅkāyam",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "பெருங்காயம்"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "iṅguva",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "ఇంగువ"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "มหาหิงคุ์"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"english": "shing kun",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "ཤིང་ཀུན"
},
{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "aṅkwaṣ"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "şeytantersi"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"word": "hiltit"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "hīṅg",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ہینگ"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "tayvlskoyt",
"sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "טײַוולסקויט"
}
],
"word": "asafoetida"
}
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